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Anoushka Joglekar

Keeping with the idea that creativity and necessity are at the heart of scientific progress, I am excited about developing new tools that can help uncover information that lies just beyond our collective reach.

Education

PhD. Candidate, Computational Biology and Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

Current - 2017

  • Working on a brain region rooted map of single-cell differential isoform expression spanning developmental time-points

B.S., Mathematics

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

2017 - 2013

B.A. English

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

2017 - 2013

  • Thesis: From the atom to the grain of sand: Ascending the Stoppardian ladder

Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher

Tilgner Laboratory

Weill Cornell Medicine

Current - 2018

Undergraduate Researcher

Coombes Laboratory

The Ohio State University

2017 - 2016

  • Developed the Newman algorithm for outlier detection in small samples and applied to TCGA cancer data

Undergraduate Researcher

Terman Laboratory

The Ohio State University

2016 - 2014

  • Worked on 2 dimensional network of neuron-astrocyte gap junctions to model cerebral ischemic stroke

Teaching Experience

Mentoring rotation students

N/A

Weill Cornell Medicine

2021 - 2018

  • Devised rotation projects and mentored MS students through their thesis, and PhD students throughout the course of their 10-15 weeks-long rotation

College Algebra

Department of Mathematics

The Ohio State University

2017 - 2016

  • Served as a teaching assistant to supplement college algebra lectures, where I conducted recitation sections twiice a week

Calculus I, II, III

Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center

The Ohio State University

2016 - 2015

  • Mathematics tutor for undergraduates

Selected Publications

A spatially resolved brain region- and cell type-specific isoform atlas of the postnatal mouse brain

Nature Communications

N/A

2020

  • Authored with Andrey Prjibelski, Ahmed Mahfouz, Suan Lin, Anna Schlusche, Guus Smit, Hagen Tilgner
  • Link to article

Getting the entire message: Progress in isoform sequencing

Frontiers in Genetics

N/A

2019

  • Authored with Simon Hardwick, Adam Frankish, Paul Flicek, Hagen Tilgner
  • Link to article

SynGO: an evidence-based, expert-curated knowledge base for the synapse

Neuron

N/A

2019

  • Authored with Frank Koopmans, Hagen Tilgner, Guus Smit et al.
  • Link to article

Single-cell isoform RNA sequencing characterizes isoforms in thousands of cerebellar cells

Nature Biotechnology

N/A

2018

  • Authored with Ishaan Gupta, Paul Collier, Ahmed Mahfouz, Hagen Tilgner et al.
  • Link to article

Neuroprotective role of gap junctions in a neuron astrocyte network model

Biophysical journal

N/A

2016

  • Authored with Richard Buckalew, Sarah Wong, Gemma Huguet, David Terman et al.
  • Link to article

Presentations and invited talks

A spatially resolved brain region and cell type-specific isoform atlas of the postnatal mouse brain

Invited talk

Tri-I CBM Recruitment, Weill Cornell Medicine

2021

Neuronal cell-type heterogeneity through the lens of alternative splicing

Bedside to Bench seminar series

Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine

2020

Neuronal cell-type heterogeneity through the lens of alternative splicing

Invited talk

Tri-I CBM Recruitment, Weill Cornell Medicine

2020

Neuronal cell-type heterogeneity through the lens of alternative splicing

Invited talk

10X Genomics

2020

Cell-type signatures of brain-region specific splicing in postnatal development

Poster presentation

Biological Data Science, CSHL

2020

Single cell Iso-Seq

Oral presentation

PacBio Summit

2020

Enhanced interpretation of ScISOr-Seq reveals distinct programs of alternative splicing in the developing mouse brain

Lightning talk

Genome Informatics, CSHL

2019

Variety is the splice of life

Three Minute Thesis Competition

Weill Cornell Medicine

2019

Leadership

Admissions Committee

N/A

Computational Biology Summer Program, MSK

2021 - 2020

Tri-I Biotech Club

Director of Internal Affairs

Weill Cornell Medicine

2021 - 2020

Social Justice and Anti-Racism Taskforce

N/A

Weill Cornell Medicine

2021 - 2020

  • Safe Space and Open Dialogue Representative
  • Social Media Liason

Tri-I CBM Leadership

Social Media Liason

New York, NY

2021 - 2020

Skype a Scientist

Scientist

New York, NY

2020 - 2018

NIH Graduate School Career Fair

Representative - Tri I CBM

N/A

2020

Tri-I CBM Leadership

Research in progress liaison

New York, NY

2019 - 2018

Vincent DuVigneaud Memorial Research Symposium

Publicity Committee

Weill Cornell Medicine

2019

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)

Representative - Tri I CBM

Anaheim, CA

2019

Tri-I CBM Leadership

Social Chair

New York, NY

2018 - 2017

Awards and Honors

JTech CSHL Biological Data Science 2020 Scholarship

N/A

N/A

2020

  • The JXTX Foundation provides support for students to attend conferences in computational biology and data science, where they can present their work and form connections with other researchers in the field

David O Frantz thesis award

N/A

N/A

2018

  • Recognizes the most outstanding thesis completed by an English major during the previous three semesters.